10 miles 60:02
Bass Lake, Boone NC
Ran my typical Boone run. 10 miles at Bass Lake doing the Manor, Blackbottom, Maze, and an extra mile around the lake. Even though I do this run for 90% of my 10 milers in Boone it never gets old. Here's a loop description: The first 2.5 miles are a gradual uphill to the manor house (which is the retirement home in the Stephen King movie "The Green Mile"). Those miles tend to get hammered out for some reason. Then you follow it up with about 3 miles of gradual downhill which allows one to get their "legs" back under them. Just in time for a steep uphill coming out of blackbottom road and up onto the maze. Once on the Maze it's another gradual mile of uphill then a gradual mile down to Bass Lake. The loop around the lake is 1500m. Just back to the parking lot is 9 miles (some of my other splits don't add up but it's real) so a full mile around the lake is required for the 10 mile run. Which is nice because you can get a final pace of your run. It's easy to run this everyday though because the entire run is on a fine packed gravel which resembles a cinder track that runs through constant Appalachia forestry. It's also the friendliest place on earth to run. Everyone you see always greets you with a "howdy" or sometimes a "my horse isn't even that fast." Solid ego boost. | 